Chapter 8

So, wow! Everything in this chapter happened entirely too quickly for me to quite believe it all. Firstly, with the 'retiring' of Polokov, all of the elaborated information on Luba Luft and not to mention the proposed 'help' from none other than Rachael Rosen her- (androidic) self. The fact that humans ultimately cant tell when an android is amongst them, tells us why it's so 'easy' for Polokov to pose as a 'special anthead.' It's all very surreal and creepy, I find. That an andy can learn how to addapt at such a level and, in Rachael's case, offer help and or advice to a human, is unfathomable in the world that I live in today.
This also makes me question the intricacies of the Rosen association. I still can't figure out whether or not I want to 'trust' them or their work (no matter how much 'creation' they are instilling on the new world). I almost feel like Rachael is up to something satirical, perhaps even seeing to the plan of Deckard's demise herself, in trying to accompany him to question the other Nexus-6's. Which then differs me back to when Rick stated his (almost) attraction to some andy's and, in that, making his first mistake as a professional and a remaining human. Is a mass-extinction in store for all basic life forms? Are the androids already in power and planning a siege of 'life'? These things are getting 'smart', even becoming more human-like by the day and starting to organize, is what I'm thinking right now. Some sort of reordered hierarchy. Conditioning in the form of replacement. Paranoid? Perhaps...(made)For 'man', by man...I mean, potentially, 'we' did create it.

Chapter 7

This chapter completed my love for J.R. Isodore! He is basically one of the cutest, most 'pure' characters we've been presented with thus far and I absolutely dote on his ignorance. He really didn't know that it was a real cat

Chapter 6

Chapter 6 really delves further into the ideas of Mercerism and explaining the Empathy Box, which, to me, sounds entirely too inhuman and (I'd even venture to say) chillingly horrifying. Isidore takes the house-warming-gift to 'Pris Stratton' and explains the idea of 'kipple' to her and how he believes that the "entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization." This really highlights the unfair prejudices put on the 'chickenheads' left on Earth. J.R. now believes that he does not have the same equalities of the regulars or even the androids, simply because that is what he's told (and perhaps a bit because he's deformed by the radiation). There is much discussion of 'entropy' throughout this chapter as well, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Toward the end of the chapter, I honestly began to think that perhaps Rachael Rowson and Pris were the same person trying to hide under a sur-name, then thought that Pris was a Nexus-6 simply trying to fool a 'fool' when her plan was foiled by the popular name she gave.

In-between

We should definitely watch Galactika or Back to The Future!!!

Chapter 5

Is there really a 'normal' response that Rick and other bounty hunters are looking for, to the questions possed by the Voigt-Kamff test?
Why is it in the interest of the Rosen Corporation to prove that the Voigt-Kampff test is invalid?

The emphasis of 'pathos'...

Chapter 4

These are only some of the questions that I possed while reading the first few chapters of Blade Runner...


1. Why is Rick Deckard in so much more of a good mood than his wife? And why does he think it's such a problem?


2. Who (or what?), exactly, is Buster Friendly and his so-called "news team?"


3. Is Dick making a notion of America's imphasis, even dependence, on media culture?


4. How many 'humans' are actually left? Is it all that 'crowded?'


5. Who started 'the WAR' and why was it fought in the first place?


Note: I did think it highly fascinating that our protagonist, Rick Deckard, owns (and seems very intrigued by) an Electric Sheep of his very own while opposing the growth and production of androids. Then, to further intensify his opposition, he has an epiphany about how similar his electric sheep (and all foe-animals in general) are, in sense, androids themselves with no 'expression'.